NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-12-01 Thread Mark A. Carlson
Has this case converged? -- mark Spoorthy H.S wrote: Hi Darren, The service nrpe starts as nagios user. privileges is taken as default. I have not mentioned the privilege in .xml file. I have only this much in my .xml file. method_credential user='nagios' group='other' / Thanks

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-12-01 Thread John Fischer
All, I have extended the timer to December 12, 2009. John Mark A. Carlson wrote: Has this case converged? -- mark Spoorthy H.S wrote: Hi Darren, The service nrpe starts as nagios user. privileges is taken as default. I have not mentioned the privilege in .xml file. I have only this

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-16 Thread Spoorthy H.S
Hi Darren, The service nrpe starts as nagios user. privileges is taken as default. I have not mentioned the privilege in .xml file. I have only this much in my .xml file. method_credential user='nagios' group='other' / Thanks Spoorthy Darren J Moffat wrote: Spoorthy H S wrote: Darren J

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread spoorthy
The file under NRPE dir/include/config.h needs this line #include netinet/ip_compat.h to get appended so that the package works on opensolaris. So, I guess it uses the ipfilter header files. I am not sure what will be problem with its usage. Thanks Spoorthy Darren J Moffat wrote: spoorthy

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Spoorthy H S wrote: To monitor some system services, we start nrpe from root. Without root privilage also, we can start this service. That doesn't answer the question I asked. Why does nrpe need to run as root ? If it doesn't need to then it should not make it so. tcp is in FMRI since i

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Spoorthy H S wrote: FMRI will be as svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default Why is tcp in the FMRI ? That implies that there could be a network/npre/udp or something else. To start the service, it needs root privilages. gid and uid i'm not assigning as in Nagios. What does it do that requires it to

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Spoorthy H S wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: To monitor some system services, we start nrpe from root. Without root privilage also, we can start this service. That doesn't answer the question I asked. Why does nrpe need to run as root ? If it doesn't need to then it should not make it so.

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread Spoorthy H S
FMRI will be as svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default To start the service, it needs root privilages. gid and uid i'm not assigning as in Nagios. Thanks Spoorthy Darren J Moffat wrote: The FMRI is still not listed in the case material. The manifest XML file is not sufficient, and in fact isn't

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-12 Thread Spoorthy H S
Darren J Moffat wrote: To monitor some system services, we start nrpe from root. Without root privilage also, we can start this service. That doesn't answer the question I asked. Why does nrpe need to run as root ? If it doesn't need to then it should not make it so. I checked now. This

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
The FMRI is still not listed in the case material. The manifest XML file is not sufficient, and in fact isn't actually that interesting because nothing can depend on it. The FMRI is the interface the admin sees and that other things can depend on so it must be listed in the case. Also what

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Why is SUNWipfh (which is a package name) listed as an imported interface ? What is actually being imported from IPfilter ? -- Darren J Moffat

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-11 Thread Spoorthy H.S
Hi John, I have attached the modified ARC one pager. Thanks Spoorthy John Fischer wrote: Correct. I have asked the project owner to respond. Thanks, John Mark A. Carlson wrote: The outstanding issues on this case do not seem to have been addressed. -- mark -- next part

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-11 Thread spoorthy
Sorry for the same... SUNWipfh is a package nrpe depends on. So, this should be listed in Dependencies. Darren J Moffat wrote: Why is SUNWipfh (which is a package name) listed as an imported interface ? What is actually being imported from IPfilter ? -- Darren J Moffat

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
spoorthy wrote: Sorry for the same... SUNWipfh is a package nrpe depends on. So, this should be listed in Dependencies. So nrpe includes IPfilter header files ? What IPfilter APIs is it consuming - that is your imported interface not the package name that contains the headers. Also the

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-10 Thread Mark A. Carlson
The outstanding issues on this case do not seem to have been addressed. -- mark

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-10 Thread John Fischer
Correct. I have asked the project owner to respond. Thanks, John Mark A. Carlson wrote: The outstanding issues on this case do not seem to have been addressed. -- mark

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Armstrong
There are two pieces to this addon: 1) NRPE 2) check_nrpe plugin Please split these into different packages (you could just put the check_nrpe plugin into the nagios package). I really don't want to end up installing all of Nagios on every machine just so I can have NRPE. -- This

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-05 Thread John Fischer
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: NRPE - nagios-addons 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Spoorthy Shankarmurthy 1.3 Date of This

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
John Fischer wrote: /usr/etc/nrpe.cfg - NRPE Configuaration file /usr/etc ? Shouldn't that be just /etc? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-05 Thread John Fischer
LSARC, I am sponsoring this fast track for Spoorthy Shankarmurthy. The case directory contains this proposal and a couple of architecture diagrams. I have set the timeout for Thursday, November 12th, 2009. This project proposes to include the NRPE Nagios addon into a Minor release of Solaris.

NRPE - nagios-addons [LSARC/2009/604 FastTrack timeout 11/12/2009]

2009-11-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
John Fischer wrote: The SUNWnrper and SUNWnrpeu packages are Uncommitted. Same comment as on the main Nagios case lets stop pretending we need separate root and usr packages. The remaining interfaces are Volatile. Exported Interfaces --- /usr/bin/nrpe - NRPE